Shakespeare and the Ends of ComedyIndiana University Press, 1991 - 158 頁 "This is a congenial, lucidly written work, the product of careful thought and attention to performance." --Shakespeare Bulletin "... Jensen has done a service by reminding readers of the variety and richness of the comedy and comic devices in Shakespeare's plays." --Choice "The ear that Jensen brings to the plays themselves results in close readings that are always insightful and stimulate new questions." --English Language Notes "Here is a genuinely readable and enjoyable book... humane, balanced, unpolemical, good humored, and fundamentally sane." --Charles R. Forker "... Jensen has produced a sensitive and eminently readable book that will no doubt figure prominently in future attempts to understand Shakespeare's comic practice." --Shakespeare Yearbook Jensen questions a persistent critical emphasis that finds the meanings of Shakespeare's comedies in their endings. Analyzing The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado about Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and Measure for Measure, he shows how much vitality is sacrificed when critics assume that "the end crowns the work." |
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... bring them together , and he is required to bring Oliver and Duke Frederick through separate transformations that will leave them , at the play's close , posing no threat to the emergent new social order . On the level of plot ...
... bring it to an end . Most of those who see the play in this way manage to bring the striking , even miraculous matters of its last scenes into the realm of rational discourse . Applying their various analyses to the play's whole design ...
... bring the comedies to life on the stage . One of the most influential recent essays on As You Like It is " The Place of a Brother ' in As You Like It : Social Process and Comic Form . " ' 12 In that essay , Adrian Louis Montrose does a ...